The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-09-15


Lake City Reporter.
The total vote at the election in Gadsden
county on the 9th was 6Se-406 for prohibition,
and 165 against.
or the s6,O00,0O0 trade dollars that were
coined less than % 900 900 were presented for
redemption. Most Of them went TO China.
Reliable telegraphic information was re.
ceived last nigh, that the prohibitionsts were
defeated in Madison at the election last Tue sday.
Majority moi stated.
One hundred members of the Veteran As
ssciaiion of New England will visit Richmond.
Va. on the 14th of next month, and will be en-
tertained BY the r E. Lee Camp in fine style
The Kentucky Military Institute, near
Frankfort, KY, of which Col Robert Allen has
for 80 many years been the head, has been
sold Tor debt The institution owed about $780,
OoO
Col H. F. Iugraham, an old and respected
citizen Of Pensacola, died Sunday morning, and
was inferred Monday. His remains were fol-
lowed to their last resting place by many friends
and citizens
On the 7th instant Major R Walpole, the
talented editor of the Sumterville Times, and
Mrs Mime Archer OF that place, were united
BIZ the bond matrimonial. May they live long
and happily.
In coming over the bar Tuesday, Captain
Lewis, of The Rio Grande, made several sound
ings and found 10 feet of water two hours before
something over 20 feet at high water.-Ferndn-
dina Mirror.
Fellow citizens We are fully assured that
the Alabama Midland Railroad will soon be
built from Montgomery, Ala, to cambridge,
Ga. This will put the two best towns in the
South at both ends of the line.-Bdinbr'd9e
Uensocrdt
The year 1887 is rapidly nearing its end.
and since the LIST of January there has been but
one death among the white citizens of our town
We defy any town with the same number OF
population to beat Quincy's health record
Quincy Herald.
The Criminal Court. a court Of record for
Escambia county, convened on the 18th for the
first time, Judge J. c. Avery presiding, with Sc
lici;or j. z. Yonge and F. A. McAlister, clerk,
in attendance. The court opened its docket
with upward Of forty cases.
The Farmers Alliance for this county was
organized at Salem Friday, with the following
officers: Hon. ID. n. Heusen, president Hon.
G. w. Shelter, vice-president; Hon. Duncan
McDougald. treasurer; and Mr.. George Shepard,
secreiary-Concord G3r Neus- Herald.
-Ofthe ten Florida counties that have voted on
the temperance question Madison is the first 70
20 wet" and by small majority. Columbia,
Brevard and Levy went dry" this week by
good msjorities. Alachua and Hillsborough
will vote next week.
An English experiment finds that, contrary
TO general opinion, growth ofivy over house
renders the interior entirely free from moisture
the ivy extracts every possible particle of moist
ure from wood, brick and stone for its susie
nance by means Of tiny roots which work their
way into even the hardest stone.
The Florida delegation of the Grand Army
of the Republic will 60 to ST. Louis TO be in at
tendance at the annual encampment, and the
members are going in style. too. They have
chartered two Pullman palace sleeping cars for
the trip and will leave Jacksonville in them on
the o'clock train on the morning Of Sept. %.
Congressman William D. Kelly says that in
his opinion the repuL leans ought TO choose for
their candidate a man comparatively un-
known" This is a broad intimation that Mr..
Blaine is so very well known that if the party
names him, the country will resound in 1888
with the cry, Man overheard r'-N Y. Herald
From the latest advices it now seems certain
that the main line Of the Alabama. Florida and
Atlantic Railroad will come to Orlando, thence
east to some point on Indian river, with a spur
from here 10 Narcoosee This road will be OF
great benefit 10 Orlando, and for which we are
indebted to our enterprising citizens, Garrett
Bros and J. o. Fries. -OrldndoR Record.
The Democratic party is the only party for
the working man. 1t is good enough for any Ia
bOrer, and when he deserts it he betrays it into
the hands of those who are their greatest enc
mics. If the working man will only exercise
himselfin assisting his own party instead OF un-
deriaking TO solve out his own problem outside
Of either party, their aims will be much sooner
accomplshed.-De Funiak critic.
Capt Voolfolk, President of the Alabama
Midland Railway Co., was in the city this week
Of that road from Montgomery to this city.
When done, the Alabama Midland will develop
one Of the very best sections of country in the
entire South. Hurrah, therefore, say we for the
Alabama Midland, and for its brilliant and ac-
complished President.-Ba,n5ridge Democrat
The Macon Nesos says that the officials Of
the Georgia Southern and Florida railroad are
very enthusiastic over the early completion of
this line, and work will be pushed very rapidly
lfem this point southwark. A large force Of
hands Is at work and the outlooks are very en-
couraging A very elegant prospectus has re-
Gently been issued, and the map accompanying
II shows the line of the road to begin at Macon
and terminate at Palstka, Fla, though 1t has not
yet been determined whether Palatka will posi-
lively be made the terminal point Negotiations
are pending between the company and the town
authorities of Palatka relative 70 the question.
"A Col John N. Brown, of Kansas, whs as
serts that he Is friend of the negro race, prov
ing himself their enemy by preaching crusade
against the whites of the South in their behalf
He is achieving infamous distinction fly the
virulence Of the lies with which he decks to
inciie the negro population to acts ofJvolence
which will recoil upon themselves In retributive
justice. His plan Is to organize the negroes
into Leagues" and if trouble arises between
them and the whites TO 90 to the aid Of the
leagues and we will make the South hell on
earth" II is easy to forctell who would be In
the hottest of the FIRE.